John 5:1-7 ▼

1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

2 Now there is in Jerusalem, by the sheep-gate, a pool, which is called, in Hebrew, Bethesda, having five porches.

3 In these were lying a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters:

4 for an angel of the Lord went down at a certain period into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever, therefore, first, after the troubling of the water, stepped in, was healed of whatsoever disease he had].

5 And a certain man was there, who had been for thirty-eight years in his infirmity.

6 Jesus, seeing this man lying, and knowing that already for a long time he had been thus , saith to him, "Do you wish to be made well?"

7 The sick man answered Him, "Sir, I have no one, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool; but, while I am coming, another goes down before me!"